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Why People Hate Zuck

14 points by georgex7 4y ago

nikolay 4y ago
Lots of people judge others by the looks, but he's been creepy in his deeds, too.
jqpabc123 4y ago
Why People Hate Zuck? That's easy --- because Zuck hates people. Tit for tat. He aims to eliminate their privacy for profit. This is bad enough but it's not all --- he has shown little regard for the "collateral damage" his profit mongering may inflict on society or the mental health of certain groups like kids and adolescents.
- orange_fritter 4y ago
  It seems less hate and more 100% indifference to the societal impact of his products, which almost seems worse. He is alien, strange, soulless, has this uncanny-valley-vibe and is basically "selling" us human connection. Really creepy.
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altmind 4y ago
I don't see people hating bill gates, the whole premise of article did not make much sense to me. Hackers used to hate him but only because window's success eating the other computing environments.
- the_common_man 4y ago
  20 years ago people absolutely did hate gates
- xxxtentacijs 4y ago
  It’s not about Bill Gates, he was just mentioned because he was included in the linked YouTube clip. And people abs hate him as evidenced by the links in the article to people thinking he is chipping them
  - nescioquid 4y ago
    The article premise is a little funny: people hate Gates and Zuck; it is strange that people hate Gates, so I'll set that aside and consider why people hate Zuck.
    - georgex7 4y ago
      Yeah I didn’t mean to put emphasis on the Gates part, he just happened to be included in the video. But good feedback
- bobkazamakis 4y ago
  he's putting microchips in the vaccines and helping the government put sodium chloride in food
guywithahat 4y ago
I think the author is right that the world hates Zuck, but I don't think the authors reasoning is as rational as he thinks it is
- georgex7 4y ago
  Can you explain more please?
strikelaserclaw 4y ago
They hate him because he looks creepy and acts creepy.
kelseyfrog 4y ago
Gates and Zuck are hated for the same reason: their actions are incongruent with the broader assemblage of ruling class ideas. Gates' business practices to squash competitors by EEE, OS exclusive deals(Dell partnership agreement), pricing retaliation(Be Inc) to name a few, is incongruent with the idea that every kid learns and most internalize in econ that "competition is good". Zuck is hated because FB's has "won" the friend-feed[1] war by dominating competition, and people have to make a choice between talking with their friends or not using FB. Again the choice isn't between competing products, it's between using the one remaining product or nothing. The end result is that Zuck's "every one will benefit from engaging with each other on FB," is incongruent with the reality that this form of social media materially makes people's lives worse which is substantiated by countless scientific[ruling class institutional] reports. 1. I'm specifically restricting this to social media outlets that serve primarily as a digital reification of meatspace friendships. So things like TikTok, fall outside that boundary, while FB & IG fall inside. G+,MyS, do as well, but they no longer exist because they've been out competed.
- xxxtentacijs 4y ago
  But why do you think Gates is hated today? Many of the young people that hate him today don’t care about what he did in the 90s
  - kelseyfrog 4y ago
    Social momentum. As correctly identified elsewhere, the simmering, proximal tech hate for Gates transmuted into a wide array of distal manifestations. Hate towards Gates gets re-legitimized to fit the needs of new interests.
    - georgex7 4y ago
      Interesting

14 points by georgex7 4y ago

Lots of people judge others by the looks, but he's been creepy in his deeds, too.

Why People Hate Zuck? That's easy --- because Zuck hates people. Tit for tat. He aims to eliminate their privacy for profit. This is bad enough but it's not all --- he has shown little regard for the "collateral damage" his profit mongering may inflict on society or the mental health of certain groups like kids and adolescents.

orange_fritter 4y ago
It seems less hate and more 100% indifference to the societal impact of his products, which almost seems worse. He is alien, strange, soulless, has this uncanny-valley-vibe and is basically "selling" us human connection. Really creepy.
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altmind 4y ago

I don't see people hating bill gates, the whole premise of article did not make much sense to me. Hackers used to hate him but only because window's success eating the other computing environments.

the_common_man 4y ago
20 years ago people absolutely did hate gates
xxxtentacijs 4y ago
It’s not about Bill Gates, he was just mentioned because he was included in the linked YouTube clip. And people abs hate him as evidenced by the links in the article to people thinking he is chipping them
- nescioquid 4y ago
  The article premise is a little funny: people hate Gates and Zuck; it is strange that people hate Gates, so I'll set that aside and consider why people hate Zuck.
  - georgex7 4y ago
    Yeah I didn’t mean to put emphasis on the Gates part, he just happened to be included in the video. But good feedback
bobkazamakis 4y ago
he's putting microchips in the vaccines and helping the government put sodium chloride in food

guywithahat 4y ago

I think the author is right that the world hates Zuck, but I don't think the authors reasoning is as rational as he thinks it is

georgex7 4y ago
Can you explain more please?

strikelaserclaw 4y ago

They hate him because he looks creepy and acts creepy.

kelseyfrog 4y ago

Gates and Zuck are hated for the same reason: their actions are incongruent with the broader assemblage of ruling class ideas. Gates' business practices to squash competitors by EEE, OS exclusive deals(Dell partnership agreement), pricing retaliation(Be Inc) to name a few, is incongruent with the idea that every kid learns and most internalize in econ that "competition is good". Zuck is hated because FB's has "won" the friend-feed[1] war by dominating competition, and people have to make a choice between talking with their friends or not using FB. Again the choice isn't between competing products, it's between using the one remaining product or nothing. The end result is that Zuck's "every one will benefit from engaging with each other on FB," is incongruent with the reality that this form of social media materially makes people's lives worse which is substantiated by countless scientific[ruling class institutional] reports. 1. I'm specifically restricting this to social media outlets that serve primarily as a digital reification of meatspace friendships. So things like TikTok, fall outside that boundary, while FB & IG fall inside. G+,MyS, do as well, but they no longer exist because they've been out competed.

xxxtentacijs 4y ago
But why do you think Gates is hated today? Many of the young people that hate him today don’t care about what he did in the 90s
- kelseyfrog 4y ago
  Social momentum. As correctly identified elsewhere, the simmering, proximal tech hate for Gates transmuted into a wide array of distal manifestations. Hate towards Gates gets re-legitimized to fit the needs of new interests.
  - georgex7 4y ago
    Interesting